http://blog.thefoundationstone.org Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from The Foundation Stone Blog Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/location-location-location/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/location-location-location/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:48:22 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2135 I returned to Van Cortland Park today for the first time since the winter began. A four and half mile walk is, well, a walk in the park compared to an hour on a treadmill. (On My Terms) It’s not simply that I can fool myself into believing that I burned more [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/location-location-location/feed/ 4 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/battling-the-nemesis-the-haggadah-of-gratitude/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/battling-the-nemesis-the-haggadah-of-gratitude/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:24:06 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6549 Nemesis is lame; but she is of colossal stature, like the gods, and sometimes, while her sword is not yet unsheathed, she stretches out her huge left arm and grasps her victim. The mighty hand is invisible, but the victim totters under the dire clutch. [George Eliot; Scenes of Clerical Life] I’ve always been struck by the choice [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/battling-the-nemesis-the-haggadah-of-gratitude/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/here-now/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/here-now/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:22:28 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6528 No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear, But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here. John Greenleaf Whittier 1859 These words struck me as I was reflecting on the Haggadah. Much of the Pesach Seder is either looking forward or behind. We look forward as we prepare for Pesach; even when [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/03/16/here-now/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-sixth-paragraph/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-sixth-paragraph/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:05:45 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6641 Based on the Kavanot for Rosh Chodesh Shevat:  Teshuva: We begin our Returning in Love by: “Give thanks to God Who is good, for His kindness is forever! Let Israel declare that His Kindness is forever! Let the House of Aaron declare that His kindness is forever! Let those who are in awe of God declare that His [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-sixth-paragraph/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-fifth-paragraph/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-fifth-paragraph/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:02:43 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6639 “All you nations; Praise God! Sing compliments, all you peoples! For His kindness overpowers us, and God’s Truth is forever. Hallelukah!” Based on Kavanot for Rosh Chodesh Shevat The Impact of Our Choices: Our expression of gratitude in the Amida in the 18th blessing – Modim – is immediately followed by a universal expression of thanks: “v’chol ha’chaim.” The [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-fifth-paragraph/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-fourth-paragraph/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-fourth-paragraph/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:59:12 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6637 “What can I respond to God for all the good He has given to make me independent? I will lift up the cup of salvation and I will call out in God’s Name. I will fulfill my promises to God in front of all His nation. Death to His pious ones is precious in God’s eyes. Please God, allow [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-fourth-paragraph/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-third-paragraph/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-third-paragraph/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:56:17 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6635 “God remembered us and will bless – Bless the House of Israel – Bless the House of Aaron – Bless those who are in awe of God, the insignificant with the great. God will enhance you – you and your children. You are blessed to God Who made the heavens and the earth. The heavens are God’s, while [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-third-paragraph/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-second-paragraph/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-second-paragraph/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:52:28 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6633 “When Israel left Egypt, Jacob’s family from among a people who spoke a strange language, Judah became God’s Holy Place, Israel, His realm. The Sea saw it and ran away. The Jordan River reversed course. The mountains danced like deer, the hills like lambs. What’s with you, Sea, that you flee? With the Jordan, that you turn [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-second-paragraph/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-first-paragraph/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-first-paragraph/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:48:45 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6631 “Hallelukah! Praise, you who serve God! Praise the Name of God. Let the Name of God be blessed from now and forever. From sunrise to sundown, the Name of God is praised. God is above all the nations. His Glory is beyond the sky. Who is like God, our Lord, Who lives up high, but drops down to see what [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/hallel-rosh-chodesh-shevat-first-paragraph/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/kavanot-rosh-chodesh-shevat/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/kavanot-rosh-chodesh-shevat/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:44:30 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6628 We derive the appellation for God’s Name, used in the Rosh Chodesh Mussaf – Additional Prayer – from the combination of letters and vowels of the following verse: “He shall not distinguish between good and bad and he should not substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then it and its substitute [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2013/01/11/kavanot-rosh-chodesh-shevat/feed/ 0